When Thinking is a Problem, compiled, edited, and sagely introduced by Charles Eigen, is a remarkable and moving collection. These essays, dialogs, musings, and analyses take on the heart of human inquiry and deliver a radical view that is at once unsettling and illuminating. Some of the greatest scientists, scholars, Zen masters, and therapeutic researchers of our time bring us their condensed views of what thinking is, what thinking isn't, and what these realizations directly bring to our experiences. The book is a marvel of insight and expression, and essential to any introspective person.

Beth Jacobs, PhD, author of The Original Buddhist Psychology, Long Shadows of Practice: Poems and Writing for Emotional Balance

Charles Eigen has collected contributions from a variety of thinkers who cannot easily be categorized, and who all made it their life's work to benefit sentient beings. This engaging book raises a topic that goes to the root of the human dilemma: suffering and liberation from suffering. Is thinking our main problem or can it be beneficial? What does 'beyond thinking' look like and is that the solution? I like this book a lot and recommend it to any serious thinker.

Reirin Gumbel, resident priest, The Milwaukee Zen Center

Charles Eigen invites us to ponder how conditioned we are to fall into thinking as a resolutive resource, being seduced by the illusion of control, unaware of how thinking can lead us away from our self and our experience. So many processes get stuck as we pretend to intellectually understand; such a waste of life! The intricacies of life cannot be solved through thinking, as thoughts can interfere with organismic wisdom, but we are conditioned to turn to thinking. We have an illusion of certainty in which challenges can be solved at that thinking level. This book invites us to a whole-body and heartfelt experience, resulting in an enjoyable ride in the here and now. The message of this book is powerful and life-changing.

Maria Florentina Sassoli y Ezcurdia, counselor, certified Hakomi practitioner, certifying focusing coordinator, president of the Argentinian Civil Association of Focusing, board member of The International Focusing Institute